I was honoured to be an Author Host at Toronto Library Foundation’s Biblio Bash at the Toronto Reference Library last week. This year’s annual black-tie event raised $1,070,1000 in support of the Toronto Public Library! Donations from Biblio Bash will be directed to youth programs and partnerships that support the social . . .
Above: Claudia Osmond, me, my sister Ruth. Huge thanks to all who came out in the rain to help me celebrate the launch of I Want To Read ALL The Books, my new solo picture book with Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers at Type Junction in Toronto! Grateful . . .
I’m delighted to partner with Brooke Van Sickle and Journey To Kidlit to offer a picture book writing workshop (online) geared toward beginning picture book writers. Don’t know the difference between a picture book manuscript and a short story? Want to know more about picture book manuscript format? Confused about . . .
Thanks to all who joined Michael Ian Black and me at our I’M SORRY virtual book launch party at An Unlikely Story Bookshop last night! If you missed it, you can watch the replay here. And if you buy our book through the bookstore, you’ll receive a bookplate signed by . . .
Only a few days until the annual SCBWI Summer Conference in LA! You can follow the action via the #LA19SCBWI hashtag and (once the conference begins) the SCBWI Conference Blog. I’ll be at the conference on faculty, including hosting the Life Drawing Lunch on Sat. Aug. 10th from 12:30-1:30 pm – do come! The deal: . . .
Only a few days until the annual SCBWI Winter Conference in NYC! You can follow the action via the #NY19SCBWI hashtag and (once the conference begins) the SCBWI Conference Blog. I’ll be at the conference – if you see me, PLEASE do say hi….but please keep reading. 
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Things have been crazybusy lately, so I’ve only had a chance to post about this now. And of course I NEED to post about this, because how often am I going to have a chance to say that I shared a stage with the amazing JUDY BLUME?!? Needless to say, . . .
I just came back from nErDCamp (aka Nerd Camp). It’s so hard to sum up this amazing event in just one post but this year I am going to make the attempt in TWO posts because I have had more and more of my kidlit author and illustrator friends ask me about . . .
Navigation: Sea Monkey & Bob Resource pageBook Tour: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 With students at the Friends School Of Atlanta. Before, during and after my book tours, I tend to be asked the same sort of questions about basic logistics as well as . . .
Navigation: Sea Monkey & Bob Resource pageBook Tour: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 Welcome sign in Rouse Elementary (Brandon, MS) My last full day of my Sea Monkey & Bob book tour was near Jackson, MS. I had never been to Mississippi, so was especially excited. Thanks to Lemuria Books, Rouse Elementary and Madison Avenue . . .